Police & Courts

Published
6:30 am CST, Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Man shot by clerk during holdup dies

A man shot by a convenience store clerk during an attempted robbery last month has died, police said Monday. Wilford Haynes, 23, died last week at Ben Taub General Hospital, where he had been since he was shot in the head during an Oct. 30 robbery attempt in the 8500 block of Wheatley. Haynes was shot when he and another man confronted the 23-year-old clerk as he was leaving the store. The other man, Cleveland Gerrell Evans, 19, has been charged with aggravated robbery.

Man shot while trying to sell gun

A southwest Houston man was fatally shot early Monday while trying to sell a pistol to the man police say shot him.
Raul Torres
, 24, was shot about 1:30 a.m. while sitting in his car at an apartment complex parking lot in the 6200 block of West Bellfort, police said. A witness told investigators Torres and the gunman had argued about the price of the pistol earlier but agreed to meet at the apartment complex.